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artlessness
[ahrt-lis] 
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artlessness
[ahrt-lis]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simplicity |
| Synonyms: | candor, ingenuousness, naiveté, naturalness |
| Antonyms: | experience, sophistication |
| Concept: | Artlessness. |
| Category: | 2. Complex voluntary action |
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-nouns
-verbs
be artless; look one in the face; wear one's heart upon his sleeves for daws to peck at; think aloud; speak out, speak one's mind; be free with one, call a spade a spade.
-adjectives
artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenue, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted., free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken; blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical; unflattering.
-adverbs
in plain words, in plain English; without mincing the matter; not to mince the matter (affirmation).
-phrases
Davus sum non Oedipus [Terrence]; liberavi animam meam; "as frank as rain on cherry blossoms" [E.B. Browning].
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| Antonyms: | cunning |
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| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clumsiness; inelegance |
| Synonyms: | amateurishness, artlessness, boorishness, cloddishness, coarseness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness, rudeness, tactlessness, uncoordination, uncouthness, ungainliness, unskillfulness |
| Antonyms: | artfulness, dexterity, elegance, grace, handiness, skill |
| Main Entry: | candor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | complete honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, directness, fairness, forthrightness, frankness, glasnost, guilelessness, honesty, impartiality, ingenuousness, naiveté, openness, outspokenness, probity, simplicity, sincerity, straightforwardness, truthfulness, unequivocalness, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | artifice, deception, falsehood, guile, lying |
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, frankness, freshness, guilelessness, gullibility, ignorance, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, lack, nescience, plainness, purity, simplicity, sincerity, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | naiveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence, gullibility |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Antonyms: | experience, leeriness, skepticism, sophistication |
| Main Entry: | sincerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | straightforwardness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, bona fides, candor, earnestness, frankness, genuineness, good faith, goodwill, guilelessness, heart, honor, impartiality, innocence, justice, openness, probity, reliability, seriousness, sincereness, singleness, trustworthiness, truth, truthfulness, veracity, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | dishonesty, insincerity, untrustworthiness |
| Main Entry: | naïveté |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, callowness, candor, childishness, credulity, frankness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, naturalness, openness, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, blamelessness, guilelessness, innocence |
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